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Tek Leaders Inc · 1 day ago

API Developer Lead

Cincinnati, OH

Contract

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

Tek Leaders Inc is seeking an API Developer Lead who will design and deliver scalable APIs for secure integration between applications and services. This role involves providing technical leadership across various teams to ensure release readiness and operational stability.

Information ServicesInformation Technology

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

The Lead API Developer designs and delivers scalable APIs that enable secure, reliable integration between applications, services, and external consumers

This role provides technical leadership across design, implementation, testing, and production support, partnering with product, architecture, security, and DevOps teams to ensure release readiness and operational stability

Qualification

REST APIsAuthentication patternsGraph query languagesIntegration patternsTechnical leadership

Required

Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining REST APIs, including API design standards, versioning, documentation, and backward compatibility practices

Deep experience with authentication and authorization patterns (e.g., OAuth2/OIDC, JWT), secure coding practices, and data protection considerations

Proficiency in Cypher, Gremlin, or similar graph query languages

Experience with integration patterns and resiliency (idempotency, retries, rate limiting, circuit breakers), along with strong observability (logging, metrics, tracing)

Proven technical leadership skills, including solution design, code reviews, mentoring, and driving engineering best practices within an agile team

Company

Tek Leaders Inc

Tek Leaders is a fast growing, global, innovative IT Services firm specializing in Digital Engineering and Digital Assurance Services.

Founded in 2008

Durant, Oklahoma, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.tekleaders.com/

H1B Sponsorship

Tek Leaders Inc has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship

Represents job field similar to this job

Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (109)

2024 (155)

2023 (162)

2022 (233)

2021 (269)

2020 (224)

Funding

Current Stage

Late Stage

Leadership Team

Krishna Pujari

President & CEO

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